Adolf Taimi

Adolf Taimi (1881-1955) was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR of the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1955.

Biography
Adolf Taimi was born in 1881, and he spent his childhood in St. Petersburg in the Russian Empire. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1902, and Taimi was expelled to Siberia in 1912 for his communist activism. After the February Revolution of 1917, Taimi was freed from Siberia by the Bolsheviks, and he led the Finnish Red Guards during the Finnish Civil War in 1918. He joined the Communist Party of Finland's central committee in 1921 and the political committee in 1925, and he was made the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish SSR of the Soviet Union in 1947 after the Soviet Union annexed Karelia from Finland in 1940 after the Winter War. He died in 1955, also ending his term as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet.